A little (necessarily) forced given that this is a story but a nice job of building a reconciliation all the same. Thanks for your hard work on this, looking forward to the next installment.

Author Reply: HI Matt,thanks for the review. Well, what Théodred achieved so far was of course only implement his idea in Thorvald's brain... whether the man actually follows through will be written on an altogether different page (yet not within this story).